Improvement in instruments for threading needles



' -UNITED STATES PATENT" FFICIE.

S. S. BURLINGAME, OF WARWICK, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMENTIN lNsTRUMENTsVFoR THREA'DING NEEDLES.

. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 22,934, dated February 15, 1859.

vTo au w/tom, it may concern: Beit known that iI, STEPHEN S.V BURLIN- GAME, of Warwick, in the county of Kent and State of Rhode Island, have invented anew and Improved Instrument for Threading Needles; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming part of this specification, in Which Y Figure 1 is a perspective view'exhibiting my needle-threader passed through the needle-eye to the position in which it receives the thread. Fig. 2 is a side view exhibiting the needlethreader as having been withdrawn from or through the eye and drawn the thread through.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

My improved needle-threader is more particularly intended for threading worsted-neei dles, which, owing to the narrowness of their eyes and the large size and loose character of of steel or .other suitable metal of awidth not greater than the length of the eyes of the neel dles for which it is to be used, having one end curled, as shown at a, or otherwise formed, so

that it canbe conveniently held between` the I thumb and iingers, buthaving the whole remaining portion straight, and its opposite end in the form of a fork, whose prongs b b are provided with barbs c c on their inner edges, which barbs nearly meet, `and beveled Voutwardly from the said barbs to their extremities.

To thread the needle with this instrument its fork is passed some distance through the eye of the needle, as shown in Fig. l, and, while it is held in one hand with the needle suspended upon it, the thread (shown in red color) is held near one extremity by the fingers of the other hand and extended across the are thus caused to spring ,apart till it passes the barbs c c. rIhen by withdrawing the in- The needle-threader consisting of an internally-barbed elastic pronged fork, substantial ly as described.

s. s. BURLINGAME.

Witnesses:

SAM W. CLARKE, GEORGE W. SHELDON.

fork and pressed between the points, which strunient from the eye the barbs are caused to 

